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The seven keys to understanding The Bible

3) God's Dual Method

A duality runs through every phase of God's Plan. First, the material creation of Genesis 1, completed; second, the spiritual creation still in process pictured finally complete in the prophecy of Revelation 21 and 22. There was the first Adam, material — of the earth, and there is the second Adam, Christ Jesus, spiritual, from heaven. There was the first covenant with Israel, material and national, devoid of salvation, based upon the birthright promise; and there is the NEW Covenant, spiritual and individual, with a spiritually begotten Israel, based upon the Scepter promise. God made man mortal, of the dust, in order to convert him into immortality, composed of Spirit.

In this very salvation process is the DUAL METHOD — the very word "salvation" means, first, rescuing from the penalty of eternal death, and second, the act of preserving, or imparting eternal life as God's gift. And so, in being saved, we first are begotten of God by the indwelling of His Spirit in our mortal bodies as the temple, or house of the Spirit — and are now merely the heirs of salvation; and second, we shall finally be fully born of God at the resurrection of the just, when we shall inherit the Kingdom.

This same DUAL PRINCIPLE runs all through prophecy! First, a former, or preliminary fulfillment which is merely the type or forerunner of a second, the final climactic fulfillment occurring, usually, during this crisis at the close we already have entered! And positively none can understand the Bible prophecies unless this DUALITY of fulfillment is understood. It is a vital key!

 

4) God's Holy Days

These were given to God's people to picture, and to keep them in the understanding of, God's PLAN for bringing about His purpose — His reign over all the earth whose people shall have been converted to righteous immortality!

Every sect, organization or denomination which has lost God's holy days and fastened its eyes upon the pagan Romish holidays instead, has lost the knowledge of GOD'S PLAN!

God's holy days picture:

1st, Passover, the crucifixion of Christ.

2nd, Feast of Unleavened Bread, put. ting sin out of our lives, or, keeping God's Commandments — and during this festival was the "wave-sheaf" picturing the resurrected Christ accepted of God as our High Priest.

3rd, Feast of First-fruits, or Pentecost, picturing the coming of the Holy Spirit and the completing of this, the merely first and preliminary harvest of souls.

4th, Feast of Trumpets on first day of seventh month, picturing the second coming of Christ at the beginning of the seventh millennium, at the last trump.

5th, Day of Atonement, picturing justice done by laying Satan's guilt in our sins upon his own head, removing him and chaining him in the symbolic "bottomless pit," making us finally AT ONE with God. Atonement means at-one-ment.

6th, Feast of Tabernacles, for seven days, picturing the KINGDOM OF GOD during the seventh millennium, the "great fall harvest" of souls.

And 7th, the Last Great Day, immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles, picturing the final Great White Throne Judgment which almost nobody today understands — and the final COMPLETION of God's plan!

 

5) The Truth about Israel

The fifth key is the fact that the nation Israel became divided into two nations, the ten-tribed kingdom, called the Kingdom of Israel, possessing the birthright promises, and the Kingdom of Judah, composed of Judah and Benjamin and a large portion of Levi, possessing the Scepter; and, secondly, the fact revealed during this "time of the end" that the Jewish people today are merely a portion of the descendants of the Kingdom of Judah; and the Americans, British, and Democracies of Northwestern Europe are the so-called "Lost Ten Tribes" — descendants of the ancient House of Israel — and that Britain is Ephraim, and the Unites States is Manasseh, co-holders of the birthright, which is the true explanation of our sudden rise to the greatest national power and wealth ever possessed by any nation.

Prophecies cannot be understood without this vital key.

Read, study, and check the absolute proof of this basic key in our free book, The United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy. Write immediately for your free copy if you have not read it.

 

6) Bible Interpretation of Symbols

God has concealed until now His prophecies of these colossal end-time world events now occurring by means of SYMBOLS used to describe these events — as well as by the fact of His dual principle, and that our Israelitish identity has been hidden from men.

Symbols, like parables, were used, not to make meaning clearer, but to hide and conceal God's true meaning until the time came for Him to reveal the interpretation of the symbols. Just as Jesus' parables were not understood until Jesus Himself explained them in plain language, so with symbols. For generations men have been putting human interpretations upon God's symbols. An important KEY, therefore, is that these symbols are interpreted in plain language in the Bible itself — if not in the context, then elsewhere — and we must search for God's own interpretation, never apply our own.

 

7) God's Sabbath

Since this is the test commandment — the one most professing Christians refuse to obey — the one which causes the greatest test of faith and reliance upon God to be able to keep it, it stands as the final completing basic key — for "A GOOD UNDERSTANDING have all they that do His Commandments"! (Proof that the Sabbath was created for Christians today is available in our free booklet Which Day Is the Christian Sabbath?)

The Sabbath is also the basic key to the identity of the true God — the CREATOR OF ALL (Ex. 31:12-17) and the key to the identity of ISRAEL. The House of Israel threw away this key to their identity — and thereby became the "Lost Ten Tribes"! Some of the House of Judah likewise threw it away, and lost their identity — not known even today! The Jews who returned to Judaea under Ezra and Nehemiah became strict Sabbatarians and have since retained the knowledge of the Sabbath — and therefore the world looks upon them as constituting the entirety of ISRAEL (because they carry Israel's identifying SIGN) although they are only a portion.

This completes the KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING — the KEYS to the KINGDOM OF GOD!

The churches have lost these KEYS! No wonder they are all mixed up, in confusion, each claiming the Bible says something different, none understanding its true message!